00:00Days after the state budget was handed down, revealing mounting levels of debt, Labor is
00:08focused on the budget's funding of election promises.
00:11Today I'm announcing that Tasmanian Labor will move to ban pork barrelling.
00:15If elected into government, the party says it will legislate to ensure that every election
00:20promise goes through an independent process to assess them on their merits.
00:25But this is Tasmanian taxpayer money and we need to make sure that we're allocating it
00:28to the best possible purpose and that's not what's been happening.
00:32Out spruiking a pothole blitz in the wake of Tasmania's recent storms, the government's
00:38been quick to challenge Labor's own election promises.
00:41They had four billion dollars of expenditure.
00:45For them to say and talk about pork barrelling right now is breathtaking in its hypocrisy.
00:51Over the past three elections, the Liberal Party has faced scrutiny over its funding
00:56promises, including through a report by Tasmania's Integrity Commission, which raised questions
01:02over tens of millions of dollars given out by the party in small community grants during
01:07the 2018 election.
01:09The Premier says listening to the community is the government's job.
01:12I'm not going to handball a member of parliament's responsibility, an elected representative,
01:18to bureaucrats to make those decisions.
01:21The Greens support the proposal to increase scrutiny, not just during election campaigns.
01:27But they say there's no need to wait for an election.
01:30We know what the problem is, it's about what is the solution, I'm sure the solution can
01:34be found and there's no reason to wait to get those solutions into place.
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